Understanding Global Social Policy

ISBN-13: 9781447310235 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 368 str.

Nicola Yeates

Opis

"Understanding Global Social Policy "is the first student-aimed textbook that comprehensively engages with this fast paced field of study, examining key theoretical and policy debates and issues. Written by an international team of leading social policy analysts, it examines how global social policies are constructed and explores how the globalizing strategies of state and non-state actors intersect with social policy concerns. This second edition contains systematically updated chapters that reflect major new developmentsincluding the United Nation s Millennium Development Goals, the Social Protection Floor, and green global social policyas well as new chapters on global poverty and inequality, social protection, criminal justice, and education.
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Spis treści

The idea of global social policy ~ Nicola Yeates; Global Poverty and Inequality ~ Chris Holden; Global and regional social governance ~ Bob Deacon; Business and global social policy ~ Kevin Farnsworth; International trade and welfare ~ Chris Holden; Global labour policy ~ Robert O’Brien; Global health policies ~ Meri Koivusalo and Eeva Ollila; Global pensions and social protection policy ~ Mitchell A. Orenstein and Bob Deacon; Global education policies ~ Roger Dale and Susan Robertson; Global Criminal Justice ~ John Muncie; Global population policy ~ Anne Hendrixson, Nicholas Hildyard, Larry Lohmann and Sarah Sexton.